Word: outer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hospital surgeons cut through George's fourth and fifth ribs and gingerly pulled out the pencil. It had been driven in four inches, penetrating the pericardium (outer sac of the heart). George's coolness, they allowed, had certainly saved his life. What George wanted to know was: Could he pitch for the baseball team, come spring? Doctors thought he probably could...
Though most geologists believe that radioactive material occurs only in the earth's outer crust, geophysical research may reverse this theory...
Actually, it comes out of Caniff's head. Among cartoonists-fellow members of what he calls "the pariah profession"-he is well liked, but seldom seen. He lives and works (12 to 18 hours a day) on the outer suburban ring of New York City, in a town with the confusing name of New City, N.Y. (pop. 992). Neighbors in the New City intellectual colony include Playwright Maxwell Anderson, Artist Henry Varnum Poor and Author J. P. McEvoy...
...world's coldest regions are areas near the poles where there is little or no sun in winter to warm the air, little wind to bring in warm air, and few clouds to screen the ground from outer space. Under these conditions, the air near the surface loses heat by radiation, often getting considerably colder than the atmosphere far above...
Costumes and settings met the standard, too. Employing the familiar inner and outer stage technique for the 18-scene drama, Directress Mary Howe used a simple method with startling effectiveness in scenes of poverty and grandeur alike. And Catherine Huntington's costumes--wherever she searched them out--were rich and 17th century...